Category Archives: Tips

Packing the kids’ school lunches can be fraught with dilemmas. One third of your child’s daily food intake will be consumed at school. This means, what is in their lunchbox needs to be nutritious but it also needs to be food they will eat. Here in lies the problem. Encourage your kids from an early…

Summer means BBQs and no BBQ is complete without a good old fashioned snarler! The fact is, not all sausages are created equal and unfortunately many are made with all sorts of additives and fillers, so we decided to get some tips on making them ourselves. Doug Jarvis kindly invited us into his butchery in…

Ingredients 2 cups flour 250g butter (frozen) ⅔ cup cold water Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Grate the butter into the bowl with the flour. TIP: Freezing the butter helps keep it cold as you work it into the flour and…

By Victoria Russell The sushi lovers amongst us will be familiar with miso soup which is often served alongside our sushi lunches. Traditionally, the Japanese start the day with a breakfast which includes miso soup commonly served with tofu, chopped spring onion and wakame seaweed as well as other ingredients. It is believed to stimulate…

Tea has always been a big part of Shai Nair’s life. Her forefathers were tea planters in India, and as a teenager she boarded at a school surrounded by tea plantations. With a career in hospitality management, Shai has lived and worked around the world, from Paris and Vienna to Geneva and Singapore. But when…

Waikato and BOP residents eat the widest variety of vegetables with their dinner, according to a recent 5+ A Day survey. Figures from the survey show 65 per cent of all Kiwis have two to three different types of vegetables at dinner, with residents of the upper North Island (excluding Auckland) topping the variety stakes. Thirty-six…

People are often amazed but when you work in and around food you often forget to eat. When I ran a busy cafe I never finished breakfast, and hardly every remembered to stop for lunch. I always thought when I had a “normal” job I would eat more regular meals. But what I realise now…

Everyone has been asking how my diet is going and my answer is fine. I feel fine, perhaps a little hungry but all in all it’s going well AND I have lost 3kgs! So this is what I remind myself of when I feel like a latte or perhaps something sweet. With a goal in…

By Deborah Murtagh (www.healthykitchen.co.nz) What’s missing from today’s food supply that our healthier ancestors consumed? What if I told you that within minutes you could preserve vegetables, fruits and herbal condiments without the use of sugar and excessive amounts of salt, all while turning your produce into a health food so powerful it rivals expensive…

This is a great alternative to traditional mashed potato, plus you get the added nutritional benefit of broccoli! 500g potatoes (I used Agria as they are great for mashing) 1 garlic clove, peeled (optional) 250g broccoli florets (approximately 1 head) 25g butter ¼ cup milk salt and pepper Peel the potatoes and chop into 2cm…